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Joseph Aspdin

1778 - 1855

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Joseph Aspdin (25 December 1778 – 20 March 1855) was an English bricklayer, businessman, inventor, and stonemason who obtained the patent for Portland cement on 21 October 1824. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Aspdin is the 281st most popular inventor (down from 280th in 2019), the 3,024th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,770th in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Aspdin ranks 281 out of 426. Before him are Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Alexander Bain, James Nasmyth, Frederick Scott Archer, Robert Cornelius, and Robert Ludvigovich Bartini. After him are Lester Allan Pelton, Valerie Thomas, Joseph Whitworth, Beulah Louise Henry, Genrich Altshuller, and Ottomar Anschütz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Joseph Aspdin ranks 36. Before him are Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Carl Ludwig Koch, Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, and Sahle Dengel. After him are Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, William Hazlitt, and Georg Anton Friedrich Ast. Among people deceased in 1855, Joseph Aspdin ranks 41. Before him are Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro, Henri Druey, Wilhem de Haan, Henri Braconnot, Guglielmo Pepe, and Sahle Dengel. After him are Sunthorn Phu, Josef Munzinger, Konstantin Batyushkov, Mihály Pollack, Henry Bishop, and Fruto Chamorro.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Aspdin ranks 3,025 out of 8,785. Before him are Gareth Edwards (1975), James Guillaume (1844), Paul Day (1956), William John Burchell (1781), Nancy Mitford (1904), and Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761). After him are Lullus (710), Paul Cook (1956), Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841), Hilary Mantel (1952), Würzel (1949), and Rosamund Clifford (1150).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Joseph Aspdin ranks 46. Before him are Arthur Wynne (1871), John Barnard (1946), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Alexander Bain (1810), James Nasmyth (1808), and Frederick Scott Archer (1813). After him are Joseph Whitworth (1803), Samuel Morland (1625), George Graham (1673), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Abraham Darby I (1678), and Harry Brearley (1871).

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